Medium Roasted Coffee

We roast all of our coffees in the shop, which allows us to bring out the individual characteristics of each type on offer by varying the length of the roast. Medium roast, which covers a spectrum of colours, allows the best balance to be found between body, aroma and fruity acidity. The characteristics of the world's best arabicas. Whilst these coffees exhibit great differences in body, flavour and aroma they are typically known as 'mild' coffees. For those that like a stronger style of coffee please see our selection of darker roasted coffees.

The finest coffee from Colombia has a rich body, heady aroma, distinctive character and lingering, fruity aftertaste. We buy this coffee at a premium well above fair trade rates to support the farmer whose efforts have created one of the world’s finest coffees with a rich, fruity and nutty character. The coffee in the cup has a big, chocolatey feel, being deep and silky.

This plantation’s outstanding coffee was a winner of the Cup of Excellence competition. It is easy to understand why, given its delicate, sweet, chocolate taste, divine aroma and lively body. We have continued to buy this coffee year after year and are always pleased to see it win a place in the annual 'Cup of Excellence'. This means the farmers pursuit of excellence is rewarded with a premium many, many times larger than any fairtrade scheme can deliver.

This offered lot comes from a Rwandan exporter whom recently participated in the Cup of Excellence taking 4 of the top 10 positions including numbers 1 and 2! This coffee was picked from those same very estates. Sweet and clean, with a bright acidity and subtle floral notes. Learn More

The Antigua district produces one of the world's best coffees on the slopes of Mount Volcan. The handful of estates are dedicated to growing the best tasting coffee possible on the old Bourbon strain of bush, with Pastoral the most distinguished. This truly unique coffee is grown on trees up to 25ft high. The beans are dried naturally in the sun and remarkably, because the cherries have been picked so precisely, aside from hulling, need no further processing. The character of this coffee is unmistakeable, it has a deep body, glorious acidity and a complex, spicy, chocolate flavour. The aroma is chocolatey with a hint of lemony, fresh milled pepper. Learn More

An exceptionally smooth single plantation coffee whose quality makes it easy to see why it is often used as a substitute for Jamaica Blue. It has a light body but is sweet, full flavoured, exhibits vanilla like nuances with an elegant, zesty acidity.

This incredibly popular coffee grown by the Wa Chagga people who live on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro is washed in the glacier streams and dried in the pure mountain air. Japanese and German buyers will pay a heavy premium for this flowery, full flavoured yet delicate coffee with its pointed acidity and clean taste. As a result this fulfilling drink is very difficult to obtain in the U.K. When you get it, covet it!

Most Brazilian coffee ends up in cheap blends in supermarkets around the world. It is grown for maximum yield with little if any concern for quality. It is with pleasure therefore that we bring you an exception to this rule. A small number of growers and exporters have decided to try and produce coffee worthy of the name speciality; and to this end hold the yearly 'Cup of Excellence' to encourage more farmers to raise their standards. With a new approach to growing and processing they have been able to unlock hitherto unknown qualities of flavour, body and aroma. This coffee yields a fruitiness and complexity matched by great body and aroma that hints at black cherries with a zesty, almond like aftertaste. Learn More